καταπίπτω,
future -πεσοῦμαι: aorist κατέπεσον, poetry κάππεσον (the only tense used by [[ 8th c.BC: Homerus Epicus), _Doric dialect_ κάπετον (which see), also κατέπετον “IG” 4.951.80 ] Refs 8th c.BC+](Epid.); late 3rd.person etc for 1st.person, 2nd.person singular optative -πέσειεν [[2nd c.AD: Apollodorus Damascenus Mechanicus “Abhandlungen der Göttinger Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften (Phil.-hist. Klasse)” 168.5 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+] (variant{-οιεν}): perfect -πέπτωκα:—fall, drop, [[ καππεσέτην 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 5.560; κάππεσον ἐν Λήμνῳ 1.593; κάππεσον ἐν κονίῃσι 12.23; πρηνὴς ἐπὶ γαίῃ κάππεσε 16.311, 414; πρηνὴς ἁλὶ κάππεσε 8th c.BC: Odyssea Homerus Epicus “Odyssey” 5.374; ἀφ᾽ ὑψηλοῦ πύργου 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 12.386; ἀπὸ τῶν ἡμιπλινθίων 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 1.50; ἀπὸ τῆς κλίμακος Aristophanes Comicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Aves” 840; ἀπ᾽ ὄνου [prev\. author] “Nu.” 1273; ἀφ᾽ ἵππου Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Oeconomicus” 1.8; ἐς μέσους τοὺς ἄνθρακας 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Cyclops” 671; ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς Xenophon Historicus [{5-6th c.BC}] “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.5.54 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; πληγεὶς κ. [[ 5th c.BC: Lysias Orator 1.27; οἰκίαι καταπεπτωκυῖαι Andocides Orator [{5-6th c.BC}] 1.108, “BGU” 282.7 (2nd c.AD), etc.: used as ] Refs 6th c.BC+]passive of καταβάλλω, πρὸς ἡμῶν κάππεσε, ={κατεβλήθη}, [[ 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Ag.” 1553 (Lyric poetry). ] Refs 4th c.BC+]
__2 metaphorically, παραὶ ποσὶ κάππεσε θυμός their spirit fell, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 15.280; μήτε καταπεσὼν ὀδύρεο 7th c.BC: Archilochus Lyricus 66.5; πρὸς τὴν φήμην τῆς ἐφόδου -πεσόντες 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “Bellum Judaicum” 7.4.2, compare 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 10.20.1; κ. τὴν ψυχήν variant in 1st c.AD: Josephus Historicus “AJ” 6.14.2 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]: frequently in perfect participle καταπεπτωκώς, base, contemptible, λόγος Aristeas[[ 144; γένος ἄτιμον καὶ κ. 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus “Phoc.” 4; ἀγεννεῖς καὶ καταπεπτωκότες 4th c.AD: Libanius Sophista “Declamationes” 30.45; ταῖς ψυχαῖς καὶ τοῖς σώμασι 4th c.AD: Themistius Sophista “Orationes” 10.136b ] Refs 1st c.AD+].